Fuguecoin (FC) Fugue256 based cryptocoin

20 Mar
2014

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FugueCoin (FC) is the First Crypto Coin using the Fugue256 hash function. Minable with CPU only at launch, though there are now GPU miners available. Still good mostly for solo mining as there is a just a single pool with problems.

Website
– http://www.fuguecoin.org/

Block Explorer / Crawler
– http://fc.coinexplorers.com/

SPECIFICATIONS

  • Fugue256 Algo
  • Total coins: 84,000,000
  • Block time target: 60 seconds
  • Reward halves every 840,000 blocks
  • No Premine

DOWNLOADS
– Windows
– Mac

Source Code
– at GitHub

PORTS

  • RPC Port: 9089
  • P2P Port: 9088

POOLS
– http://dwarfpool.com/fc/
– https://cpu-pool.net/fugue/
– http://fc.minepool.cc/

EXCHANGES
None available currently.

KnCMiner 100 MHS Titan Litecoin Mining ASIC Has Been Announced

19 Mar
2014

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KnCMiner has just announced their first Litecoin mining ASIC device already available for pre-order with a Q2/Q3 shipping date, 100 MHS minimum Scrypt mining hashrate and a price of $9995 USD (without VAT). Not much information is available for the moment, but trusting KnCMiner is much safer than Alpha Technology who have not yet released a product on the market, unlike KnC who have some history and good feedback from users that have purchased Bitcoin ASIC devices from them. Note that Alpha Technology has also announced target for shipping for Q2/Q3 this year, but their Scrypt ASIC devices are rated at up to 25 MHS and you will need to pay £5450 UK pounds (without VAT) for that. So if you haven’t pre-ordered a Viper Scrypt miner from Alpha Technology then it is much more reasonable to go for the 100 MHS KnCMiner Titan Scrypt ASIC. Meanwhile Gridseed remains the only company currently making Scrypt-capable ASIC devices and shipping them on the market, so that is the only option you have for the moment for an LTC ASIC device. It is also interesting to note that current customers queuing for a Neptune SHA-256 ASIC are able to exchange their queue if they are more interested in the newly announced Titan Scrypt ASIC miner.

– For a bit more information about the upcoming KnCMiner 100 MHS Titan Litecoin Mining ASIC…

Voltmod Update for the Gridseed 5-chip BTC/LTC ASIC Miners

19 Mar
2014

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Yesterday we have reported about a solution for volt modding and overclocking even higher the 5-chip Gridseed ASIC miners for use with the cgminer software modified to support Gridseed ASICs. We have tested the voltage modification on our older and newer revision ASIC miners, and t has allowed us to go from 850 to 950 MHz overclock on the newer miner. Unfortunately it was not working on the older ASIC miner and it was not working with other software miners such as bfgminer or cpuminer for Gridseed. Meanwhile there is an update that solves both of these issues we’ve experienced with the earlier solution. In fact you only need to solder a bridge between another two points on the ASIC miner – note the second green strip on the right from the firs one from yesterday where you need to solder too. This modification will permanently activate the higher voltage and should allow you to overclock all (most likely) Gridseed 5-chip ASICS regardless of their revision and firmware version with all of the available software miners that support them.

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The power consumption after applying the permanent voltmod is 10W per 5-chip Gridseec ASIC miner with the fan or about 8W if you remove the fan and use passive cooling (not recommended for voltmoded miners) or use another form of active cooling. Doing the permanently activated voltmod solution we are still able to get best results at 950 MHz with no to very few HW errors and performance of a little over 400 KHS. Pushing for 1000 and 1050 MHz is also possible (going for 1100 MHz or more results in only getting HW errors), but the number of HW errors increases as well, so the actual performance might be lower than running the miner at lower frequency such as 950 MHz with less HW errors. As always do try on your own hardware as there is a variance and you might be able to get better results with your miners. If you do plan to do the hardware voltage modification be aware that there is a risk of damaging the ASIC, especially if you are not good with the soldering iron, so proceed with caution.

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